Ali M. Bazzi is an Associate Professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at the University of Connecticut (UCONN), USA. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, in 2006 and 2007, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL, USA in 2010. He joined UCONN in 2012 as an Assistant Professor where he established and currently directs the Power Electronics & Drives Advanced Research Laboratory (PEARL). He was a senior power electronics electrical engineer with Delphi Electronics and Safety in 2011-2012, a visiting assistant professor at UIUC during spring 2011, an engineer with Bitrode Corporation in the summers of 2008 and 2009, and a research and teaching assistant at UIUC between 2007 and 2010. His research interests include power electronics design, control, optimization, fault diagnosis, and reliability modeling in motor drives, solar photovoltaics, and other applications. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2018, Mavis Memorial Scholarship at UIUC in 2009, the Outstanding Teaching Award from the ECE Department at UCONN in 2014, and the Research Excellence Award at UCONN in 2015 and 2018. In 2016, he became a UTC Assistant Professor for Engineering Innovation at UCONN. He has over 90 peer-reviewed and refereed technical publications and several patents.